Bi-Directional Relationships Between Psychological Symptoms and Environmental Factors in Early Adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Bi-directional relationships between various environmental factors and psychological symptoms can be seen from childhood to adolescence; however, there has been little prospective cohort study, which investigated the relationships simultaneously. In this study, we first distinguished specific psychological symptoms from general psychopathology using bifactor modeling and then tested the relationships between psychological symptoms and environmental factors from childhood to early adolescence using a structural equation model (SEM).

Methods

The analyses were based on Tokyo TEEN Cohort (TTC) data collected between October 2012 and March 2016. We obtained self-reported psychological symptoms and environmental factors from both parents and children (at their ages of 10 and 1

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7495193 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature